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Princeton University

College/University

13 Mentions

9 Reimbursements

$312.9 Income Paid

Princeton University has been linked to five current Supreme Court justices via their disclosure forms. These ties could include direct financial relationships — such as employment, travel reimbursements or gifts — as well as other connections, such as degrees awarded.

Samuel Alito
Samuel Alito
Sonia Sotomayor
Sonia Sotomayor
Elena Kagan
Elena Kagan
Neil Gorsuch
Neil Gorsuch
Amy Coney Barrett
Amy Coney Barrett
  • Samuel Alito 2 mentions

    2 mentions

    Education

    Education lists the justice's educational history, including where they obtained their undergraduate and law degrees.

    Degree Year
    B.A. 1972

    Travel Reimbursements

    Reimbursements include any payment or thing of value received to cover travel-related expenses for justices and their families. They can include expenses that the third party paid directly or for which a justice paid upfront and was reimbursed, but justices are not required to report reimbursements’ dollar values.

    Date Location Purpose Items Paid or Provided
    June 19 – 22, 2003 Williamsburg, VA Speaking

    Spoke at conference

    Food, Lodging
  • Sonia Sotomayor 6 mentions

    6 mentions

    Education

    Education lists the justice's educational history, including where they obtained their undergraduate and law degrees.

    Degree Year
    B.A. 1976

    Travel Reimbursements

    Reimbursements include any payment or thing of value received to cover travel-related expenses for justices and their families. They can include expenses that the third party paid directly or for which a justice paid upfront and was reimbursed, but justices are not required to report reimbursements’ dollar values.

    Date Location Purpose Items Paid or Provided
    Oct. 5, 2018 Princeton, NJ Speaking

    Speech

    Transportation
    March 31 – April 1, 2017 Princeton, NJ Speaking

    Participation in interview/conversation with Margarita Rosa, Princeton Latino alumni organization

    Food, Lodging, Transportation
    Feb. 21 – 22, 2014 Princeton, NJ Ceremony

    Acceptance of Woodrow Wilson Award

    Food, Lodging, Transportation
    April 29, 2011 Princeton, NJ Conference/Symposium

    Alumni Women’s Conference

    Food, Transportation
    June 19 – 22, 2003 Williamsburg, VA Conference/Symposium

    Conference on constitutional principles in American history

    Food, Lodging, Transportation
  • Elena Kagan 3 mentions

    3 mentions

    Education

    Education lists the justice's educational history, including where they obtained their undergraduate and law degrees.

    Degree Year
    B.A. 1981

    Travel Reimbursements

    Reimbursements include any payment or thing of value received to cover travel-related expenses for justices and their families. They can include expenses that the third party paid directly or for which a justice paid upfront and was reimbursed, but justices are not required to report reimbursements’ dollar values.

    Date Location Purpose Items Paid or Provided
    Oct. 5, 2018 Princeton, NJ Speaking

    Speech

    Transportation
    Nov. 20 – 21, 2014 Princeton, NJ Speaking

    Speech

    Food, Hotel, Transportation
  • Neil Gorsuch $312.9 income 1 mention

    $312.9 income 1 mention

    Noninvestment income

    Noninvestment income includes compensation from jobs the justice has had, such as teaching roles; jobs at law firms before they were judges; pension benefits; and royalties for intellectual property, such as books and copyrights.

    Report Year Amount Purpose
    2023 $312.92 Royalties
  • Amy Coney Barrett 1 mention

    1 mention

    Travel Reimbursements

    Reimbursements include any payment or thing of value received to cover travel-related expenses for justices and their families. They can include expenses that the third party paid directly or for which a justice paid upfront and was reimbursed, but justices are not required to report reimbursements’ dollar values.

    Date Location Purpose Items Paid or Provided
    Oct. 17 – 18, 2019 Princeton, NJ Speaking

    Walter F. Murphy lecture, educational

    Food, Lodging, Parking, Transportation

About The Data

The bulk of the data we used came from the Free Law Project, which maintains a database of more than 35,000 financial disclosure records for federal judges, justices and magistrates, most of it dating back to 2003. These disclosures, which federal employees are required to file each year under the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, are maintained by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. The law, however, requires most of them to be destroyed after six years, making many disclosures from earlier years hard to find. Our disclosures cover most of those filed since 2003, as well as some financial information disclosed by some justices during their Senate confirmations in 1990, 1991 and 2000. (Do you have information about a Supreme Court justice’s finances from before 2003? Email us.)

Because much of the data was extracted from PDFs using optical character recognition, we designed our own database and imported and cleaned the Free Law Project’s data to fix scanning and other errors. We corrected spelling errors, edited fields for style and clarity and, where possible, attempted to add contextual information by, for example, categorizing organizations and transactions, standardizing certain fields, updating entity names or filling in missing information.

In some cases, such as when the Free Law Project did not have a specific disclosure or had not extracted data from a report, we extracted or transcribed the data manually.

After cleaning and standardizing the data, we spot-checked it for accuracy, looking primarily for transcription or categorization errors. If you believe you see an error in the database, please contact us at [email protected].

More from Friends of the Court

ProPublica has reported that justices have sometimes failed to disclose speaking engagements and gifts like private jet travel and luxury vacations from wealthy and influential people. Read our series: Friends of the Court.

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